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Originally Posted by Wylie's Mom  Did you like the new Ups/Downs, btw? I was so hopeful/excited for the series! I thought Ed Stoppard was perfectly cast, but I really couldn't stand Keeley Hawes in it at all - she ruined the chemistry for me. So sad it didn't go into another season with better writers and cast.  |
Personally....no! I found it a 'cheap' imitation...and I just couldn't be bothered with it, and didn't watch every episode....I'm sad to say!
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Originally Posted by yorkietalkjilly It was good but production values on it were like a local TV station's! haha. As were many productions back during that time. It was very like a stage play, wasn't it? Rather intimate and stage-y. Looking back, it was an overall disappointment compared to today's work on DA and such but I did enjoy it. Paid and arm and a leg to buy it but I'd say it really was worth it. That cook in that episode where she just went totally off the rails early on!!!!!! What in the world was that all about, especially since she became a paragon of sorts later. Funny how the writers take their turns, isn't it.
I LOVED the new UD but they cancelled it since apparently ratings weren't that good early on and I was so mad. Plus, the lady who played Rose or Mary in both - that maid or housekeeper? - had a stroke? or something and as she was sort of one of the main forces behind the new one I read, I guess the project just went south after she got so ill. Sure wish that the new one had worked out. It had glorious production values to me. Loved the war angle and all once that came into it and then the way they flirted with the pending abdication, Wallis & "Eddie" and all, etc. Just loved it. |
Oh Jeanie - it's all so sad, isn't it....it makes me wonder how we'll look back on Downton in years to come....
Plus I HATE the latest series of Foyle's war....so boring and complicated and repetitive I actually turned it off....
Poor Andy - missing out on all this stuff....!!!
Sally x